CHAPTER 7
Tiklik managed to steer the cruiser to a trajectory within a few kilomeasures of the original position of Savannah Runner. The AI had wedged itself into the cockpit doorway, arms extended, head down as if in a trance. It flew the ship using only visual queues from the exterior telescopes. The engines burned at an e-gee, and then deaccelerated hard into the target volume of space. Tarkos and Bria remained strapped in, fidgeting with the controls that still worked, and trying to manage what repairs seemed possible using the cruiser’s onboard robots.
When the cruiser drifted into orbit they found the space above Neelee-ornor choked with decaying particles and falling debris that generated a roar of radio noise and dangerous radiation. Most comm traffic was incomprehensible, b
